lt cap,
I already *almost* joined the ranks of the VR-smitten when I
bought an Occulus Rift system from Best Buy a couple of months ago
when the price was temporarily dropped to $399, and the Best Buy
Bundle (headset, 2 touch controllers, 2 sensors plus a 9th 'Eve
Online' game that the other bundles was lacking in the standard 8
game package that came with the bundle. Eve Online is otherwise a
$50 piece of software. And I already owned 2 well rated games on
Steam - Elite Dangerous (which I've been too fumble-fingered to
master as a keyboard and mouse game to get through the tutorial)
and Everspace, which I've wasted a lot of hours on so far - pretty
cool game, all in all. Both games give you access to their Occulus
VR versions simply for owning the 'regular' versions.
However, I'm slightly loathe to admit publicly that I haven't
had the time and focus to set up the Occulus bundle I have - both
boxes are still sealed. So this announcement about the Occulus Go
has me on the fence - I'd like to be able to compare what, besides
glare reduction and a pc free tether the Go will bring - will it be
more powerful or less? Will it come with a game bundle or no?
'Tether free' isn't making a whole lot of sense to me as I'd think
you'd need the processing power of the CPU and especially GPU of
your computer to render games and movies properly, but I could be
missing something.
And it may be that the details of 'Go' are not going to be
available until we get closer to launch next year. If I get
industrious, I'll probably just keep what I've got. If I still
haven't set it up closer to launch, well, maybe I'll think about
selling what I've got and get a 'Go.' But it's not of much
consequence - I can lose or gain the price differential on very
small movements of NOK, and that's a day to day fluctuation. I'll
see. The only thing I see to be sold on is the idea of VR as an
inevitable coming wave. Just hope when I actually *do* have a setup
in place I'm not one of the people that become incurably nauseaus
by the sensation, making it a no go for me :-)
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